Storefront Migration Agent
Conversational Store Migration Over the Shopify Admin API
A migration tool that rebuilds a storefront on Shopify from a conversational instruction, carrying full variant matrices, per-variant prices and images, and reconstructing the navigation from the source site.
- Industry
- E-commerce
Migrating a storefront between platforms is repetitive, error-prone data entry. Variant matrices, per-variant pricing and images make the work fiddly, and mistakes surface at checkout rather than during the migration.
- Every product, variant and image re-entered by hand
- Variant matrix errors are found by customers at checkout
- Admin access to the source store is often unavailable
- Navigation has to be rebuilt separately from the catalogue
- A partial migration re-run risks duplicating the catalogue
A pipeline driven either conversationally or from the command line that scrapes the source storefront's public JSON and rebuilds the catalogue and navigation on Shopify through the GraphQL Admin API.
- Scrape the source storefront's public JSON, requiring no admin access to it
- Support both GoDaddy and Shopify as source platforms
- Migrate multi-variant products with their full matrix, per-variant prices and featured images
- Rebuild the target store's main menu from the source site's navigation
- Offer append mode so a re-run adds rather than duplicates
- Keep the pipeline runnable headless with no model key required
How it was built
Moving a storefront by hand means re-entering every product, every variant and every image, then rebuilding the menu. Getting a variant matrix wrong is the kind of error a customer finds at checkout, which is the most expensive possible moment to find it.
The pipeline scrapes the source storefront's public JSON rather than requiring credentials for it, which removes the usual blocker of getting admin access to a store somebody else still controls. Multi-variant products migrate with their full matrix, per-variant prices and variant featured images.
Typing a migration instruction into a chat session is the convenience. The pipeline also runs headless from the command line with no model key at all, so the migration itself never depends on a model being available or behaving.
Append mode makes a re-run additive rather than duplicating the catalogue, which matters because a migration is rarely finished on the first attempt.
- Catalogue re-entered manually product by product
- Variant errors discovered by customers
- Source admin credentials needed to start
- Navigation rebuilt by hand after the catalogue
- Catalogue and navigation rebuilt from the source automatically
- Full variant matrices with per-variant prices and images
- No admin access to the source store required
- Re-runs additive rather than duplicating